Switch control of most mainstream Apps is so cumbersome as to make it almost not worthwhile – I’ve tried many eBook Apps with Blue 2
and only one client has ever persevered with it and even they gave up and went for PC tablet access in the end. But I wanted to caution against voice activated switches for complex scanning like this, in general. Devices like this don’t differentiate between
the types of sound so environmental noises and other sounds produced by the client all have an effect and they don’t have ‘pause/sleep’ function. We have one environmental control user who uses voice activation in bed, because we have exhausted all other possibilities,
and he wouldn’t use it if there was any other reasonable option for him.
Cheers
Jeremy
Jeremy Linskell CEng, CSci, MIPEM
Principal Clinical Scientist
Electronic Assistive Technology Service
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From: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com
[mailto:xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of
Antoinette Verdone
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 9:43 PM
To: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: Hey Siri
There is such a thing as a voice switch that could be used with switch control to perform the functions that Siri won't do:
https://www.enablemart.com/voice-switch
I don't have experience with these, and would probably want to use a more "traditional" switch, but just wanted to throw this out there.
Antoinette Verdone, MSBME, ATP
Owner, Lead Consultant
ImproveAbility, LLC
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- Helen Keller
On Jan 27, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Alisa Brownlee <xxxxxx@alsa-national.org> wrote:
I know Hey Siri can allow a person w/ no hand function but a good voice to make a phone call w/ the iPhone.
My question is would Hey Siri work with a Kindle app? I hand a PALS w/ no hand function they wants to read through voice activation.
Thanks for any help